Bringing Baby Home’s Pirak, she mentioned a study that the institute’s founder, John Gottman, had done about the relationship tasks that come up after a baby is born. “There were approximately three hundred additional tasks per day,” says Pirak. “If you were at work and your boss came in and said, Hey, we just acquired a new company, and you’re going to have three hundred additional tasks per day, the first thing that you would do is say, ‘I need help—and a raise!’ ”
